Kentucky fans are gobbling up football bowl tickets again.
According to a story in the Tennessean, ticket sales are approaching the 57,000-mark for Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl on Dec. 27, already 2,500-plus more than last year’s total ticket sales between Vanderbilt and Boston College. Those numbers have been strongly driven by Kentucky fans, according to the story in the Tennessean.
UK’s initial allotment of 12,000 tickets was sold by Monday, the day after the teams were announced. An additional 4,000 tickets were requested by Kentucky and nearly all of those have been sold, according to the report.
Clemson has sold approximately 3,000 tickets.
“With the game moving to two days after Christmas our rationale was that we were hoping to get as local and as regional fan base as possible,” Music City Bowl President Scott Ramsey said in the report. “That would give the most fans the opportunity to follow their teams. That proved to be the case. Kentucky obviously has fans who are great supporters of their program. We’re real pleased with how tickets are selling right now.”
Kentucky owns the Music City Bowl attendance records with the two largest crowds. Attendance for the UK-Florida State game in 2007 was 68,661 and the UK-Clemson game in 2006 was 68,024.
UK will face Clemson in Nashville, Tenn., on Dec. 27 at 8:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.
